Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.
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